Monday 12 September was the first day of school for almost 9 million Italian students. For the others, including those in the areas hit by the earthquake, the onset is expected in the coming days, starting on Tuesday. But above all this is the school year that sees the debut from the first moment of the reform of the Good School wanted by the Renzi government.
The Minister of Education Stefania Giannini was optimistic in an interview with Repubblica TV: the contest offered new positions, 63.700, and if for a definitive budget "we are waiting for next year, because the professorships to be assigned are over a three-year period", for the moment Giannini speaks of “a gigantic hiring movement, unheard of for thirty years. What could have been foreseen was foreseen. Then there are the variables. Those could not have been foreseen and we are fixing them ”. Minister Giannini added: “One year is not enough for a cultural revolution. It seems to me that we can be satisfied and naturally aware of a complex machine which over the next few weeks, like every year, will be at full capacity with all those details which, like every year, require organisation".
Giannini also intervened on the controversies relating to travel. A sacrifice, "yes, of course", but Giannini stigmatizes the use of the word "deportation" for "the possibility of a stable and definitive job, therefore the exercise of a right that the teacher has and the right to stability that a school has. An inappropriate definition". “If 65% of the places available are in the North and 80% of the teachers come from the South – she adds – it is clear that there is a problem that we are tackling in the possible ways. There is an important operation that the Government is carrying out with the delegation on early schooling starting from the nursery school. The law for 0-6 years will mean new jobs“. It is necessary to "undermine a system", given that Italian immobilism of the last thirty years has been "an abomination".
